CLSC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Human Events
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Myth -> mythos: myth: false, mythos: story, tale, account of historical occurrence, speech, single word, no connotaion that it is false. Facts may be proven false, purpose of myth doesn"t change: myth and society: polish scholar went to islands, learned language and observed how myth works. Myths explain the society and how they work: myth and ritual: myth is actually put on as drama in public rituals where you are explaining it. Get story part not public presentaion from cast. Allegory and nature: all myths are nature myths and they explain why the cosmoses is the way it is and the world is the ways it is. Myth and psychology: sigmund freud and his mother, both freud and young importance of dreams. Bronze age: majority of story comes from 300 b. c. e- 1000 b. c. e: elevated central living, shortly ater that, bronze age collapses.
